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'RECLINING CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming'part of Letters Patent No. 378,902, dated March 6, 1888.

Application filed July 8, 1887. Serial No. 243,750.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. PEW, a citizen of the United States, residing at J amestown, in the county of, Chautauqua and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reclining-Chairs, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to that class of reclining-chairs in which the anglegiven to the back is controlled by longitudinally adjustable braces connected with standards upon the front legs or seat-frame of the chair; and the objects of my invention are to produce simple, inexpensive, and reliable devices to retain the back of the chair at any desired angle, and also to retain a foot-rest connected with said chair at any desired height or distance from the seat thereof. I accomplish these objects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is aside view of a chair constructed in accordance with my invention, showing the parts in two positions. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, showing the parts in an intermediate position. Fig. 3 is a side view of the lower portion of the chair. Fig. 4: is a side view, on a larger scale, of the longitudinallyadjustable brace used to connect the back of the chair with the front standards thereof and the arm to control said brace. Fig. 5 is aside view of the two parts constituting the adjustable brace. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the footstool and the forward end of the bars to connect it with the chair. Fig. 7 is a top view of the rear end of the supporting-bars of said footstool. Fig. 8 is a front view of one of the standards secured to the front end of the seat.

In the drawings the frame of the seat of the chair is represented at A. It is supported on .legs B, of suitable form, and the latter may be provided with segmental rockers secured to the bottom thereof. To the sides of the frame A is pivoted at a the lower end of the chairback 0, and to retain said back at any desired angle standards D are rigidly secured to the sides of the frame at the forward end thereof. They have a slot, (1, in their upper end, in which is pivoted at d the forward end of a flat (No model.)

rod, 6, having ratchet-teeth on its top and bottom edge.

To connect the rod 6 adjustably with the chair-back 0, there is pivoted to said back at its branches ratchet-teeth or notches f for simultaneous engagement with the teeth 6 on the two edges of the rod (2, said rod e and forked rod f forming together a longitudinallyadjustable brace for the back of the chair on each side thereof.

To permit a person to regulate the inclination of the chairback while sitting on said chair, its arnisG are used to open the branches of the forked rod f and release its notches from engagement with the teeth e For this purpose there is pendent from each arm G of the chair a secondary arm, G carrying a pivotpin, 9, upon which it can oscillate. Said pin passes freely through a slot, 6 in the rod 6. The arm G has also a short distance above and under the pivot-pin 9 pins g that are made to pass through slots f in the branches of the rod f, adjacent to the forward end thereof.

The direction of the slots f is parallel with the axis of the forked rod f,- but as the pins 9 are not on a vertical plane passing through the pivot-pin 9, but on an inclined plane, it fol lows that when the arms G are in their normal horizontal position, as shown by full lines in Fig. 4, the teeth 6 are in engagement with the notches f but when the rear end of each arm G is elevated, as shown by dotted lines in said Fig. 4, the branches of the forked rod become spread apart, and the rods 6 and f are disconnected, and the length of the brace produced thereby can be regulated to suit the inclination desired to be given to the back of the chair. Instead of having the slots f in the arms f, the order of the parts may be reversed and the slots be made in the arms G, while the operating-pin would then be made to project from the side of the branches of the arm f, and said branches will be as effectively spread apart by tilting forward the rear end of the arm G. The tilting of said arm may even be reversed-that is, it may have its rear end depressed to spread the branches of the arm fapartby changing the arrangement of the f a forked rod, f, having on the inner edge of pins 9 g gthat is, by having the upper pin 9 forward of the bottom pin g,- but I prefer the construction shown in the drawings. The arms ef-are generally made of wood; but they may alsobe made of metal, if desired.

To the sides of the seat-frame A are pivoted at it two bars, H, that are united at their rear end by a rod, h", carrying rollers 7r, adjacent to the ends thereof, to present a frictionless bearing against the back of the chair when the latter is tilted, and the rollers 7L3 have rubber tires to render them noiseless. The bars H extend forward of the front of the chair, and have pivoted to their front end at h the footrest I, consisting of a horizontal board, 2, that may be upholstered, if desired, and standards 1" at the ends thereof, said standards being properly secured to the board 6 by rods or bolts 2"", if desired, and the pivots for said footrest pass through said standards, preferably half-way of their height. By having the footrest I thus constructed and pivoted the feet of a person sitting in the chair can be made to occupy four positionsviz., a position with the board i turned down, as in Fig. 6, one with the board i turned over or up, one with the foot-rest inclined and the board 2 farthest from the front of the chair for long-legged persons, and one with the board i turned so as to be as near as possible to the front of the chair for persons having short legs-and as the arms 0 f have at least seven teeth on each side the foot-rest can be made to oceupyatleasttwentyeight different positions.

The pivotpins h of the bars H project from rubber-faced washers h, and are received in slots a to permit the foot-rest to occupy a still larger number of positionsthat is, to be moved and adjusted independently ofthe back of a chair-as by pushing it the rollers 7L3 at the rear end can be made to engage with the angle K, formed by the back and the seat of the chair, or into the segmental notches L,

made for the purpose in the back of the seat A; and as the slot a hasa depression, a, at its forward end the pin it will drop into said depression, and thereby lock and prevent the bars H from sliding backward; but the length of the slot permits said bars to occupy any desired position under theinclination of the back of the chair.

Having now fully described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination of the rigid frame of a chair-seat, standards secured thereto adjacent to the front thereof, a back pivoted to said frame adjacent to the rear end thereof, a rod pivoted to each standard and provided with teeth on the top and bottom thereof, a forked rod having teeth on the inner side of the arms of said rod, and means, substantially as described, for releasing the toothed rods from engagement, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the rigid frame of a chair, a back pivoted to said frame, a forked rod pivoted to said back and having teeth on the inner side of the arms of said rod, a rod, 0, pivoted to the chair-frame and provided with teeth on the top and bottom thereof, and an arm, G, having a secondary arm, G", provided with means, as set forth, for releasing the toothed rods from engagement, substan tially as described.

3. The combination of the rigid frame of a chair-seat, bars H, pivoted thereto and connected at the rear thereof, and a foot-rest pivoted to the forward end of said bars, said rest consisting of a board, 2, standards-17 and rods 2', substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES H. PEW.

W i tnesscs:

)I. S. VAN Sono'rnn, CLAYTON E. PRICE. 

